Jeff Ramsdale wrote:
The only river that flows in both directions is the Mekong River in Cambodia. The river sits in such a low basin that when the tide rises the river flows backwards. Sadly, Mekong is probably not a terribly descriptive name for your construct...
Well, maybe. I've hacked-up a model of a TCP connection running over jini. The implementation is reversing the direction of the calls. It's basically polling for chuncks of streamdata. A single serverendpoint exposed on the internet serves acts as a rendezvouz for both the accept() and connect() calls. The device behind the firewall binds() to the rendezvous service, and waits for incoming connect() calls in a accept() call. The underlying endpoint family is servlet/httpclient based for easy deployment, but any endpoint family should be possible.
Maybe Mekon is a very good name for it. Gr. Sim -- QCG, Software voor het MKB, 071-5890970, http://www.qcg.nl Quality Consultancy Group b.v., Leiderdorp, Kvk Leiden: 28088397
